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Gheorghe: The Blog (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
A hearty welcome to all my fellow citizens of Virginia's 10th Congressional District. Seems the Right Honorable Frank Wolf (or, more likely, the bot that's running his Open Congress website) saw fit to recognize my ode to my own feet from earlier this week. I don't really see eye to eye with Rep. Wolf on many things (as he's much taller than I, and a pretty darn conservative Republican), but I think...
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Raising Kaine - Front Page (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
This is pretty funny, apparently the thin-skinned non-moderate Frank Wolf is losing his cool, or at least his campaign manager is letting the Feder campaign get under his skin. Stay tuned, because something tells me we're going to be seeing a lot more of this before the election cycle is over.
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Gheorghe: The Blog (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
G:TB readers in Virginia's 8th Congressional District will be delighted to know that they reside in America's longest-lived jurisdiction, according to the folks at measureofamerica.org . Since I'm stuck out in Frank Wolf's 10th District, my strategy for reducing stress and adding a few precious months to the grand total looks a lot like this, which not so coincidentally reminds me where I'd so much...
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Phi Beta Cons (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
A spokesman for Rep. Frank Wolf says, ldquo;Wersquo;ve got to get to the bottom of it, one way or another. Either clear the school, and letrsquo;s mo... . . .
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Too Conservative (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
VA 10: Q1 Pre-P Post-P Q2 CtD CoH Frank Wolf (R): $310K $158K $204K $362K $1.4M $849K Judy Feder (D): $312K $116K $200K $316K $1.2M $812K VA 11: Q1 Pre-P Post-P Q2 CtD CoH Keith Fimian (R): $139K $108K $335K $443K $956K $1.0M Gerry Connolly (D): $501K $152K ?? ?? ?? $300K* *Rumored amount (Pre-P = Pre-primary reports; Post-P = post-primary reporting period from 5/21/08 to 6/30/08; Q2 = both [...]
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Too Conservative (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
LCRC membership has risen by 40% in just three months, and there was a great presence at various Loudoun July 4th events. Between those positive signs and the very strong showing by Frank Wolf in the recent primary, things are really looking up for the GOP in Loudoun County. Read the latest press release here.
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Too Conservative (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
CQ Politics, and myself, have ranked VA-10 as a “Safe GOP Retention” for the widely respected Rep. Frank Wolf, and as I’ve brought attention to before, the DCCC agrees, putting the race on their list of “emerging races” alongside VA-5. I had previously thought that it was an insult to rank VA-5 and VA-10 as equally [...]
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Vital Signs Blog (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Two of the U.S. Congress' leading human rights champions, Republicans Chris Smith and Frank Wolf, learned about Communist China's intimidating and repressive practices up close and personal when they traveled there to meet with Christian leaders and political dissidents. Here's the story from Smith's hometown paper.
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News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Two U.S. congressmen who were in Beijing to lobby for the release of political prisoners were barred from meeting with human rights lawyers, officials said.Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said Republican Reps. Frank Wolf of Virginia and Christopher Smith of New Jersey overstepped their visas in arranging to meet the lawyers, The New York Times reported Tuesday. They should not intervene...
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Al Nye The Lawyer Guy (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
As reported in the Washington Post, some Chinese human rights lawyers were arrested by government security officials to prevent them from attending a dinner hosted by two visiting members of the U.S. Congress. Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) had invited several dissident lawyers to meet with them Sunday night, but later learned that police took two...
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Chris Smith of New Jersey and Frank Wolf of Virginia had planned to dine with the dissident lawyers on Sunday night, but the police either detained the lawyers beforehand or placed them under house arrest, they said.
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A Newt One (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
H. Res. 1303 introduced by Congressional Human Rights Caucus Co-Chair Frank Wolf, would encourage the Mubarak regime to released jailed bloggers end torture and protect the Copts from repression & pogroms. For the details, see Sons of Apes and Pigs . See Gov Track for the text of the resolution. Then send an email to your Representative, urging co-sponsorship of H. Res. 1303. Ben 06/29/08
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American Congress for Truth (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
comment by Jerry Gordon In a post yesterday, we noted that Rep. Frank Wolf, ranking minority on the House State and Foreign Operation Committee had sent a letter to the State Department. We got a look at what he sent. It was terse and to the point. Wolf wrote: “The United States government owes it to [...]
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Counterterrorism Blog (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
The controversy surrounding the Islamic Saudi Academy of Virginia continues to grow. Rep. Frank Wolf, the ranking Republican of the appropriations subcommittee with jurisdiction over the State Department, wrote Secretary of State Rice (Acrobat file of the letter) to express his serious concern. "It is well known that Saudi Arabia promotes the radical Wahhabi interpretation of Islam within its own...
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Renaissance Ruminations (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Something happened the other day that underscores the silliness of some of the Judy Feder campaign lingo, and also shows just how some really silly stuff is said to raise money. The Feder campaign has through various means maintained that Congressman Frank Wolf is “running scared”…because refusing to take an opponent for granted is a bad thing. [...]
